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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

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